Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

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On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 00:34:12 UTC, sarn wrote:
> On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 22:09:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/10/2016 10:07 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> [Snip stuff about Scheme]
>
> Scheme is a really nice, elegant language that's fun to hack 
> with, but at the end of the day, if people were writing Nginx, 
> or the Windows kernel, or HFT systems in Scheme, you can bet 
> programmers would be pushing pretty hard for special exceptions 
> and hooks and stuff for better performance or lower-level 
> access, and eventually you'd end up with another C.
>
> Walter said "all programming languages", but he's obviously 
> referring to the programming market D is in.

This is a false dichotomy. Nobody says there should be no 
inconsistencies. Sometime, it is just necessary because of other 
concerns. But it is a cost, and, like all costs, must pay for 
itself.

Most of these do not pay for themselves in D.